University Now Offers International Travel Insurance
The University’s new international travel medical insurance and evacuation policy, which you likely heard about in a message from the Provost last spring, h
UK's Butterfield Receives NIH Grant to Study Parkinson's Disease
D. Allan Butterfield, professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA), has been awarded a $413,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a new model of Parkinson's disease (PD).
PD is the second most common age-related neurodegenerative disease in the United States and is manifested by movement abnormalities, postural instability, loss of smell (anosmia), deposition of the protein, alpha-synuclein, and in late stages, cognitive dysfunction.
Annual UK Healthcare CT Surgery Symposium to be held Saturday morning, October 3
The CT Surgery Symposium 2015, co-sponsored by the UK Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (CT Surgery), UK HealthCare, and CE Central, will feature 10 presentations on advances in the surgical management of cardiothoracic disease on Saturday morning, October 3, in the Pavilion A auditorium of UK Hospital.
CCTS Researcher Appointed Associate Editor of Stem Cell Text
Muscular Dystrophy Association Funds ALS Research at UK
The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) awarded Haining Zhu, a professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, a three-year, $300,000 grant to study the underlying mechanisms of ALS.
In an effort to accelerate treatments and cures for neuromuscular diseases, the MDA distributed $10 million in grants this summer to scientists conducting significant research on muscular dystrophy, ALS and other muscle-debilitating diseases. Zhu’s research seeks to understand the mutations of the Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) gene, which is a known cause of ALS.
SRAS Updated Procedures Now Available
The SRAS is currently completing a review of its SOPs.
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